harddrive upgrade

[adrimaxi]

Dear all,
I would like to buy an ipod video and upgrade it with a 120GB or 240GB hdd. There prior to do it I would like to know how it works.
I saw that you can buy the hdd ther http://www.rapidrepair.com/shop/ipod-hard-drives.html
But then how the hdd is formatted and is RB would see the properly partition if more than 136GB?
Thanks,
Adrimaxi

[LambdaCalculus]

I moved your post, as it's more of a hardware related question than an installation issue.

Have you searched the forums to see if anyone else has attempted to use a hard drive larger than 136GB in an iPod video? If not, you may be the first.

Some users have managed to get a 120GB drive into their players and have both the OF and Rockbox report the capacity in full. 240GB drives, on the other hand, are still quite new and expensive, so you may not find as many results for it. If you're willing to try it out and tell us about it, go for the 240GB drive. iTunes should be able to format the drive and set up the OF; if not, then you have your results (and maybe a nice 240GB drive to use for data storage instead).

iTunes on Windows will format the drive as FAT32 for you, which is what Rockbox expects. So if you buy any new hard drive, just pop it in, perform a restore in iTunes, then grab the manual and read it to install Rockbox.

[TexasRockbox]

Hmmmm.....  they do show the 240GB as working with the iPod in iPod mode.  A special Rockbox build for greater than 137GB is still needed, correct?

Here: http://www.rapidrepair.com/shop/3119-hard-drive-disk-mk2431gah.html

[rmaniac]

I have picked up one of these 240gb drives for the ipod 5.5G and installed it. After setting rockbox to use LBA48 and a sector size of 4096 it works great so far (I just got the drive today). If anyone needs information on what to change in the source or just a precompiled bootloader and rockbox setup I can post that somewhere. I will post if I have any issues, I am copying about 200gb of .ogg files over to it right now. The drive boots the apple OS and rock box, both show 223GB or something on them.

[evilnick]

Unless you need the full 240GB of space then I do have a spare iPod video that's already got the 120GB drive inside it for sale.

PM me for pictures/pricing if you're interested.

[Tomcat ha]

this thread is just what i need.

Can someone tell me what military shipping is thats said on that website. Is it international?

If it isnt ill just go by fed-ex international.

[mattylight]

I have picked up one of these 240gb drives for the ipod 5.5G and installed it. After setting rockbox to use LBA48 and a sector size of 4096 it works great so far (I just got the drive today). If anyone needs information on what to change in the source or just a precompiled bootloader and rockbox setup I can post that somewhere. I will post if I have any issues, I am copying about 200gb of .ogg files over to it right now. The drive boots the apple OS and rock box, both show 223GB or something on them.

rmaniac- I am finally all set up to compile my own builds, and I was planning on doing a build up of one of these monster ipods. What did you change in the source code to get it to work properly? How did you make these changes? Any tips? I am pretty new to compiling, and coding in general, but I know enough C and C++ to get in trouble...lol...anyway any help would be great. thanks in advance.

Oh and to the military guy, rapid repair does ship to APO...I called them and asked...and cheers from Iraq...

[rmaniac]

Well for one there is a post of mine here:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=20960.0

That has images ready to go. Other than that you need to change the firmware/export/config-ipodvideo.h

Add:

/* Add LBA48 for my 240GB */
#define HAVE_LBA48

and change:

#define MAX_LOG_SECTOR_SIZE 16384
and
#define MAX_PHYS_SECTOR_SIZE 4096

Then you can compile the bootloader and rockbox and all should be happy.

[barbes]

Hello,

I just tried to install your build on my 240gb 5.5 and my ipod has shut down completely.  It's showing this message on the screen:

*panic* unsupported physical sector size: 4096

A hard reboot just ends up at the same screen, and my computer won't recognize it as a drive.

Any advice as to what I should do?  At this point I'm not worried about getting Rockbox to work, I just want my iPod back.

Thanks...

*edit*

rmaniac got me going again...thanks

[TexasRockbox]

Upgraded iPod Video for 120GB for now and am transferring files.  I think 120GB should do for .ogg for the forseeable future.  Whoo Hoo!

[Zardoz]

Would it be possible to upgrade the ipod 80GB with standard toshiba drive to a 1.8" SATA 128GB SSD (for a million bucks)?? I was looking at making a DIY converter, like here http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=356421, although i guess it might not fit. Any thoughts?

[barbes]

I had Rockbox running on my iMod w/240gb drive using the build in this thread (again, thanks rmaniac) for several weeks, and it worked beautifully. Then it started to go sour - intermittent failure of the clickwheel and buttons, sometimes they worked and sometimes not, slow response to commands, screen going blank while music still played. Rebooting and hard booting sometimes helped, sometimes not. All symptoms got worse as time went on. When I rebooted into the Apple firmware the same symptoms appeared. I uninstalled all the Rockbox firmware and all symptoms disappeared (it was hard to get into disk mode to do this, it wasn't responding, though I finally got there). Original firmware now running fine.

I'd prefer to run Rockbox, though. Any ideas?

[Llorean]

It sounds like intermittent hardware failure. Best guess is that it was just chance that uninstalling Rockbox had nothing to do with it clearing up, coincidence or possibly your attempts to get it into disk mode wiggled something back into place at least temporarily.